Bryant’s Letters of a Traveller: Or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America

The journalist and Romantic poet’s accounts of travel. (P. 63: Let me caution all emigrants to Illinois not to handle too familiarly the wild parsnip, as it is commonly called, an umbelliferous plant growing in the moist prairies of this region Umbelliferous! While in the northern Mid-West, he makes extensive note of the Native Americans.